Birch Cottage has a new website of its own
Visit the Birch Cottage website to bookWelcome to Lackan Cottage Farm
We’re Steve and Claire Golemboski-Byrne, we live here off grid with our daughter, our dog, cats and horses. We make all our own energy using wind and solar, grow as much of our own food as we can (it varies widely) and have used permaculture design principles to help us create a great place to live.
Here on the website you’ll find stories about the projects we’ve undertaken – what works, what doesn’t. You can come stay in our guest cottage – Birch Cottage and we will show you round, or maybe you just want to find out how to do some of this stuff. Either way, welcome.
From the Mourning of the World – The Dark Mountain Project
We love Rima's work - there's quite lot of it hanging on the walls here, so this new project is very exciting. The Dark Mountain Project is putting together an album of various artists that are synpathetic to their cause, and it is to be released both as digital...
STOP PRESS – Change of date for One Million Trees in One Day
We got the following email from the One Million Trees in One Day people this morning, announcing a last minute change to the planting date, which will now be SATURDAY 27TH APRIL. Apologies to anyone who was planning to come along - we hope you can make it on the new...
Mad March
March feels like a sprint to the finish in our woodland, which despite this latest brief cold snap is starting to come to life. Everywhere you look, green shoots are appearing, and some of the trees have tiny buds coming out. The challenge for us is to finish...
The end of winter (almost)
Well, for a while there we thought that spring had sprung, and so it would seem did the snowdrops. After what seemed like a long winter, suddenly there is a dash to get all the jobs done before spring arrives properly (whatever happened to hibernation?). For...
Low Impact Development – in Northern Ireland?
In theory, low impact building is something that you hope people would welcome: low cost shelter that uses minimal resources, that people can put together themselves, and which doesn't stand out like a sore thumb in the landscape. It could be cheap to heat, to run,...
Welcome to the new website
Well folks, after much late night toiling, here it is - our new website and blog. We've been with blogger for years now, but the time has come when we need more than it can offer, especially now that we're a business and have volunteers and visitors coming to...